New Steam Hit Made Back Its Entire 7 Year Budget In Just 3 Hours

Mewgenics is the king of Steam, at least for a day. Disney’s new boss has some weird ideas about what people want to do in Fortnite. And No Man’s Sky just became a space trash truck sim. It’s the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily roundup of gaming news, rumors, and culture. It’s time to bring back mass market paperback books. And hope for the future. And to make the old vbulletin 3.x the default template for the internet again. You should all be watching the Winter Olympics, they’re pretty nuts this year.

Mewgenics is already in the black

Just 24 hours after release, Mewgenics is already the best-selling game on Steam with over 67,000 concurrent players. Not bad for an indie roguelike that had a notoriously delayed development starting with its incubation over 12 years ago. It evolved a lot during that time and co-developer Edmund McMillen was clearly very nervous about how the whole thing would turn out despite his past success with Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac.

“And we have made back our development budget after 3 hours,” fellow Mewgenics developer Tyler Glaiel wrote yesterday. “Thank you all :)”

Disney wants to launch movies inside Fortnite

I have no idea why, but that’s what new CEO Josh “Daddy” D’Amaro was riffing with media about during a recent off-the-record chat. Puck obtained some sort of readout and claims the new executive, previously from the company’s theme parks division, said the following:

“It’s not just gonna be one character. It could be a new film premiering there, it could be the place that you decide to book your next cruise vacation. You could participate in the Super Bowl in some way there.”

Yes, I can’t wait to book my next family cruise while hanging out in Lethal Labs before hopping over to Sus Studios to catch the new live-action remake of Frozen. Truly the metaverse Tim Sweeney promised us. How long before Disney tries to acquire Epic games if it hasn’t already?

No Man’s Sky is transforming into a physics playground

That’s thanks to a new gravity gun module revealed as part of the sci-fi epic’s free Remnant update that’s available today. Players will also be able to recycle planetary debris and use flatbed trucks to turn the game into a space-junk hauling sim. “You can work alone or join a salvage crew with friends,” the developers said. “It creates this really fun and tactile new loop of searching for wrecks, loading trucks full of cargo and hauling across the alien landscape to industrial yards to gain new loot and rewards.”

Romeo Is a Dead Man isn’t the only Suda51 game coming in 2026

“It’s almost 100 percent certain that we’ll be releasing one more game during 2026,” the Grasshopper Manufacture CEO said this week on YouTube. “What kind of game? When can we announce it? We’re not sure just yet, but if you wait a little longer, I feel like we’ll be able to make an announcement soon.” You can read our review of the game he just shipped here.

It’s your last chance to buy Yakuza 3 Remastered

Sega is delisting the game and fans will soon be stuck with the newly released and much maligned Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties as your only option. You can get it here. RGG‘s Masayoshi Yokoyama confirmed this is the last Kiwami remake anyway.

“I don’t think it will continue as the ‘Kiwami’ series anymore,” he said during a livestream. “I think a different series will begin, and not something like Like a Dragon 9, but rather a new series on a different line, with a different meaning. This might be something you’ll understand once you play Yakuza Kiwami 3.”